[cctalk] Re: Gb Ethernet and 10Mb links

2023-05-29 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 5/29/23 14:03, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: > > I believe the 10Gb standard specifically prohibits autonegotiation, so > 10G should not drop down to 1G or 100Mb/s. Is that maybe only applicable to the 10G standards for optical fibre? According to Wikipedia 10GBASE-T supports autonegotiati

[cctalk] Re: Computer Museum uses GreaseWeazle to help exonerate Maryland Man

2023-01-25 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 1/25/23 11:53, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote: > > And back on the stenography-keyboard like thing -- what about morphing > keys? If a keyboard had actual screens on the keys, and the keys change > (the actual symbol) based on the context of whatever you're doing. I know > we have macros and re

[cctalk] Re: 2 sets of IRIX, 2 Indys and I1

2023-01-21 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 1/20/23 11:19, Chris via cctalk wrote: > > I have 2 IRIX sets. 15 disk 6.5.4 iinm. And a 3 diak 6.5.6. Have 2 > Indys, 1 is busted up, the 1 I'll wind up keeping for an extended period > probably. 1 Indy has an r5000 I think and a graphics card. The other is > mediocre. Also have an R1000 Imp

[cctalk] Re: Restoring unknown format backup tapes

2022-12-30 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 12/30/22 15:17, John Herron via cctalk wrote: > This may be a larger conversation than I intend but how would you all > generally start if you ha backup tapes that you wanted to try and > read/restore? > > Supposedly they're Amiga qic tapes. I'm a little worried about the > structural integrity

Re: Retro networking / WAN communities

2022-04-12 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 2022-04-12 09:49, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > > Does anyone still remember the other 100 Mb Ethernet-like proposal, I > think from HP, which added various types of complexity instead of simply > being a faster Ethernet? HP's proposal was called 100BaseVG, aka 100VG-AnyLAN, and could ca

Re: Mounting ULTRIX CDROMs on Linux

2021-07-27 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 2021-07-26 9:34 a.m., Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 2021, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > >> ISTR upstreaming some fixes to Linux UFS support 20+ years ago to address >> this very problem (IIRC OSF/1 or Digital Unix CD-ROMs were also UFS, and I >> had a need to access them

Re: Help Identifying Mystery SBUS Cards

2021-07-11 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 2021-07-11 4:37 a.m., Classic CMP via cctalk wrote: > > (2) A dual width SBUS framebuffer, with space for a piggyback daughter > SBUS card in the middle. It features 3 x Bt457 RAMDACs and an Actel > A1020A chip. Possibly part of the "SPARC Card TV" partially described here: http://www.hype

Re: Compaq C V6.5-303 for Tru64?

2021-06-05 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
The new URL is: https://myenterpriselicense.hpe.com/cwp-ui/free-software/T64_DTK You need to log in to download it, but you can create an account for free if you don't already have one. (I don't know if you might need a paid license to run/use the software.) On 2021-06-04 6:49 p.m., Larkin Nic

Re: Mounting ULTRIX CDROMs on Linux

2021-05-20 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 2021-05-20 4:49 p.m., Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: > > Great, thanks for that. I would probably have never guessed that I > needed loop. I'm glad it worked. I still find it illogical to loop mount a device, but it works. I never would have figured it out on my own either. I don't remem

Re: Mounting ULTRIX CDROMs on Linux

2021-05-20 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 2021-05-20 5:05 p.m., Jonathan Stone via cctalk wrote: > > What does one have to do (Linux, MacOS, *BSD) to write such an image > to the CD with 512-byte blocks, so it can be read by a DEC boot-ROM? There's nothing special needed to write the disk -- just burn it the way you would any other

Re: Mounting ULTRIX CDROMs on Linux

2021-05-20 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 2021-05-20 4:01 p.m., Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 1:56 PM Antonio Carlini via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> I'm running Linux Mint (an ubuntu derivative) and I want to mount ULTRIX >> CDROM discs to see what I can see. >> >> (I'm eventually going to i

Re: WTD - Jupiter Ace plastic rivets

2020-12-04 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 2020-12-03 9:20 p.m., Philip Pemberton via cctalk wrote: > Has anyone got a couple of the white plastic rivets which are used to > hold the Jupiter Ace case together? > > They consist of a 4-point clawed rivet of about 5mm long, and a pin > which pushes down the centre to open it out. > > I ne

Re: Crypto Ancienne: TLS for the Internet of Old Things

2020-11-17 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 2020-11-16 1:34 p.m., Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: > If you have an older pre-C99 system, I've backported a TLS 1.2 library to gcc > versions as early as 2.5 as long as it has 64-bit ints (long long, usually) > and stdarg.h. > > https://github.com/classilla/cryanc That looks interesting.

Re: WTB: AUI cables

2020-11-17 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 2020-11-17 3:22 p.m., Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk wrote: > > In maybe 2 minutes of clicking I found these reasonably priced and using > standard slidelock assemblies, sold brand new on both sides of the pond: > > http://www.computercableinc.com/ccinc/products.jsp?sub=AUI+Transceiver&id=2041

Re: About to dump a bunch of Compaq SCSI disk caddies (and disks)

2020-07-07 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 2020-07-07 12:52 p.m., Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 18:14, Alessandro Mazzini via cctalk > wrote: >> >> Flebay is quite overpriced, sadly ( personal opinion anyway, from >> the point of view of someone that's now looking at finding a thing >> since months and is fixa

Re: Info / packs for Amcodyne 7110 "Arapahoe" drive?

2020-01-10 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 2020-01-10 7:12 a.m., Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > On 1/9/20 8:57 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: >> Hi all -- >> >> Got one of these: >> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/amcodyne/7110/Arapahoe_7110_Brochure_Nov84.pdf >> >> >> sans power supply and packs. > > HP used them in one of their disk

Re: AIX 5L/ia64 media?

2019-08-01 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 2019-07-25 6:07 a.m., Plamen Mihaylov via cctalk wrote: > I know it was a short lived, but anyone has the installation cd or iso > image? It's not an installation cd, but yesterday I stumbled upon some developer stuff (mostly for device drivers) for AIX on Itanium on IBM's own FTP site: ftp://

Re: looking for info on SIMMS

2019-06-13 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 2019-06-12 11:46 p.m., Paul Anderson via cctalk wrote: > I'm sorting out a bunch of SIMMS and would like to identify the type of > system they are from and the size. Does anyone know of any published lists > that could help me ID them? > [...] > 54-24829-DA > 54-20352-01 > 54-21139-CL > 54-2122

Re: Making a bootable LIF CD for the 9000/382

2018-07-06 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
I've successfully booted both my HP 9000/380 and 425e systems from a Toshiba SD-M1711 DVD-ROM drive jumpered to 512 byte/sector mode. In my case I was using CD images provided by David Collins from hpmuseum.net. The boot CD image that I got from him has the same md5sum as the hpux9_install.iso im